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  • olac police stopped 900 vehicles on the Princes Highway, Colac West, on Wednesday as part of a state-wide crackdown.

    Police nab 100 drivers

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    COLAC and district police have nabbed up to 100 motorists for safety and traffic offences in a bid to make the region’s roads safer.

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  • Colac District Football League interleague coach Tim Pekin addresses his team at training ahead of tomorrow’s clash against the Warrnambool district league.

    Players ready for interleague clash

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    SIX months of work will come to fruition this weekend when Colac district footballers play interleague for the first time in more than a decade.

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  • Colac heatwave breaks records

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    Colac’s Stuart Walsh walks his dog at Lake Colac on an extended foreshore because the lake is drying up.

    COLAC and district’s heatwave this month has a broken a five-decade record.

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  • Hot, dry summer takes toll

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    Glen Loch Apple Farm’s Juli Farquhar is hoping for rain to rejuvenate her orchard after a dry summer.

    A DRY summer in the Otways has affected the quality and quantity of this season’s harvest at a Gellibrand River organic apple orchard.

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  • Driest start since 2009

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    Alvie’s Frank Eldridge is carting water across south-west Victoria because of dry conditions.

    COLAC has recorded its driest January since 2009.

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  • Carp likely to die in drying lake

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    Lake Colac is drying up after a dry spring and summer.

    CARP in Lake Colac could start dying soon with the lake’s water level reaching its lowest point in more than two years.

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  • Today is a day of total fire ban

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    THE Country Fire Authority has declared today a total fire ban day for Colac and district.

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  • Deluge dumps half month’s rain

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    AN overnight deluge has dumped almost half the average December rainfall on areas of Colac district.

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  • Washout fails to stop cricket

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    Colac Cricket Club's Alex Burnett, Peter Rhodes, Luke Consedine, Phill Borg, Lewis Trickey and Rob Oborne play cards after rain washed out Saturday's play.

    A WASHOUT failed to stop Colac district Division One cricket at the weekend.

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  • Rain forces postponement of carols

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    Memorial Square will be empty tonight after rain forced the postponement of Colac's Carols by Candlelight.

    WET weather has forced organisers to postpone tonight’s Colac Carols by Candlelight.

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